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TIL that actor Ross Hull (Are You Afraid Of The Dark?) has worked as a weather anchor since 2005.

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wLarP TIL in 1926 a U.S. Marine was crowned King of the Haitian island of Gonâve, the first and only American to become a ruling monarch. His reign ended when the Marines transferred him to his next duty station.
OgOe TIL that twin brothers separated at birth and reunited 39 yrs later lived almost parallel lives. Both were named James, both owned a dog named Toy, both had married twice; first to women named Linda and second to women named Betty. Both drove Chevys, smoked Salem cigarettes and drank Miller Lite.
v1ngK TIL that Adelicia Acklen saved her fortune because she was friends with a Confederate general and friendly with a Union admiral. The general agreed not to burn her Louisiana cotton and the admiral allowed her to ship it to New Orleans. She sold it to the Rothchilds of London for $960,000.
4XbJ TIL that ARTIE, the strongest man in the world, does the voice of KAHN on king of the hill, and he’s not even asian
d8Rp9 TIL that American neurologist Walter Freeman drove around the US performing ice pick lobotomies in a van he coined the lobotomobile.